Just In Time ELAR Training
Grades 4 & 5 - Don't Miss the Boat for the 2nd 9 weeks
What you need to know
The T-TESS is coming. Don't Miss the Boat! http://www.livebinders.com/edit/index/1414300?tabid=075dc721-bc08-411e-a335-19bd63a224c1#anchor
4 Corners - Talk about it
Don't Miss the Boat
We will use some visual cues to help us focus on some Learning Keys Components that we want to include in our lessons. Notice how many of these are included in the PA's!
NOVELTY & VARIETY
NOVELTY & VARIETY:
How does this activity include novelty and variety?
How does this activity include novelty and variety?
AFFIRMATION
AFFIRMATION:
How could you include affirmation of the students' performance during or after this activity?
How could you include affirmation of the students' performance during or after this activity?
PRODUCT FOCUS
PRODUCT FOCUS:
Explain the product focus of this activity.
Explain the product focus of this activity.
AFFILIATION
AFFILIATION:
How does this activity provide an opportunity for students to work with each other?
How does this activity provide an opportunity for students to work with each other?
AUTHENTICITY
Authenticity-
How does this activity provide an authentic experience for students?
How does this activity provide an authentic experience for students?
CHOICE
CHOICE:
Does this activity provide an opportunity for student choice?
Does this activity provide an opportunity for student choice?
HIGHER ORDER THINKING
HOT THINKING:
Does this activity lend itself to higher order thinking?
Does this activity lend itself to higher order thinking?
5 Word Summary - Overview of your 9 weeks
This is a group activity. First highlight your grade level essentials on the TVD to see what you need to emphasize this grading period. Then read the overview and highlight key words. As a group decide on the 5 most important words to create a 5 word summary.
Unit Vocabulary is important!
Teach what it is and what it isn't.
Head bands activity
This is a review activity for kids who can read or recognize the words.
Your partner has a word on their head band. They can't see it, but you can. Try to help them guess by1. explain what it is without saying the word.
2. tell them what it isn't without saying the word.
3. give examples, act it out or draw a picture to help.
Is this Head bands activity a form of formative assessment?
Turn and talk to a partner. What would you do while the students complete this activity to gather information (data) and what would you do after this activity for students who were struggling?
The PA's
The Performance Assessments in TEKS Resource System are valuable tools for teachers! You are missing the boat if you haven't included them in your planning.
I do. We do. You do.
Practice with the PA's
Model
Guided practice
Independent practice
Plan and prep for the PA
Powerful Influence
The mentor texts that you share with your students can spark interest in a topic, inspire curiosity to learn more and be a powerful influence on the students' writing. Listen to this interview with author, Seymour Simon:
TC+BK= INFERENCE
BEFORE & AFTER - BK
"Read" an image
Read an image rather than a text to engage students and build background knowledge.
Look at the image below and discuss it with your table group.
Picking Up the Pieces
Schema Strips
Organizational Pattern
Now that you can see the passage in its entirety, decide how the author organized the ideas in this passage.
SKETCH TO STRETCH
Cross-curricular
Use texts in other genres to make connections with expository texts.
TABLEAUX
A tableau is a frozen scene that communicates a huge amount of information and feeling.
The Talking Leaves
Your group will create a statue depicting a big idea from the passage.
Native Americans By ReadWorks
Discuss the organizational pattern used by this author.
Castaways share what you think about that activity.
What features from our Learning Keys training did you notice?
Let the kids animate their drawings to summarize a piece of text
POETRY FRIDAYS
Cross curricular - Social Studies & Expository Reading - 4th grade PAs
Social Studies - Different points of view during the Mexican War (Statehood)
Reading - Opinion
build background knowledge:
https://www.tsl.texas.gov/treasures/earlystate/index.html
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpZ0Or_tLsc
Social Studies Resources for social studies.pdf
PBS transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/
book
art
PICK A SIDE (of the room)
Have fun with letter writing
Book Talks or Book Trailers
Wolves Seymour Simon
Genre Hang ups
Text Feature Scavenger Hunt
Use Educreations, Show Me, or SeeSaw
Now it's your turn
Choose a different PA that you want to use. Plan the activities that you will need to prepare your students for the PA.